"Too Easy!"
Well that certainly wasn't my opinion of the nightmare. It kicked my rear every time I shot it.
I used to travel and shoot in matches all over Georgia back around 1978 - "79 and one day I attended a Rondy at the Cherokee Bark Busters. I had shot a target, just enough to show my ignorance, when this older gentleman with white hair and beard asked if I minded if me shot next to me. That terrified me because right about then I just wanted to go home. But I said "Not at all"
He was shooting a 28 caliber flintlock longrifle. Not being pushy about it he proceeded to teach me things I needed to know. Those were the most profitable teachings I ever got.
He introduced himself as Charlie Heffner and said he made the targets we were shooting. All I had was the ramrod that came with my TC Renegade and Charlie dissapeared for a few minutes and returned with a 3/8" Hickory ram rod. I used that rr for many years until I bought a couple for myself. That ramrod, right now, is my main ramrod as it fits both my 40 and 54 calibers.
When the match was over Charlie told me that I had promise at this shooting thing and would I be willing to let him coach me a little. So I met him at a number of matches after that. He gave me a stack of targets and told me to keep practicing. He was a pretty good coach and my shooting vastly improved. The next year I took a 3rd in the 50 yard bull at the Southeastern National Match. Well, a new job soon took me away from my monthly travels and shoots.
I never saw Mr. Charlie again but I kept up with him some over the years and we tried to plan going to a shoot but it never seemed to work out.
Then one day I asked about him from another Tennessean and was told he had passed away.
That was a sad day.
